Oh, I do! (just a lost reporter)... the real story is the enviro-wackos, taking over the fourth largest corporation on the planet, the entire oil exploration industry, the entire chemical plant industry... followed by the lumber/paper mill industries, strip mining industry, cap and trade (read:energy rationing)etc.
This is the 'holy grail' for enviromentalists-global authority, and permanent, unlimited funding from fines and litigation, to perpetuate it! Witness the $20B eco-extortion!
THAT's why the weeks of golf games. Enviro wacko pres, has an AGENDA, to let the spill continue, until the holy grail is guaranteed. (not that the gov't has any idea how to stop it, anyway)!
Fifty years from now, the declassifications will happen. Then, those of us, who are still alive.... can see whether this was an intentional enviro terrorist act- by a greenpeace sub, the navy, CIA, or the like- to bring about the 'holy grail.'
Just think, Bush (it's ALWAYS Bush's fault, right?) will change from enviro-goat, to enviro hero- for allowing the deep water drilling, and ushering in the golden age of environmental extremism!
Obama will collect another Nobel prize, for protecting the environment! (and doing the same amount he did for the other one-nada!)
Then, his news clips will go a CD (grammy award), a DVD (an oscar), and a military documentary (congressional medal of honor- for 'heroism' in the ''''war'''' to protect the earth)!!!
You are partially right about some of these things, but there is a way to plug this well. I sent in a suggestion on how to plug this well to BP suggestion web site. I recieved a reply stating that they had already thought of the same plan I had sent to them and that this plan was their next step to plug this well off. They do not want to plug this well, it is making them millions of dollars a day from the oil they are recovering. BP claimed they did not know how much oil was flowing from this well, yes they knew. The oil industry has formulas to calculate flow rates. BP knew what the pressure of this well was from the weight of the mud they used to drill into this formation. The weight of the mud is what keeps the well from blowing out while you are drilling. BP knowing the bottom hole pressure with the mud in the hole can calculate flow rates by the size of the pipe and the surface pressure at the BOP. If they wanted this well plugged, it would already be pluggued. BP did not give out any of this information at the Senate hearing in Washington. All BP did was evade answers by saying they were waiting on the full investigation. Two months after the blow out they are still investigating. Investigating what? Answer: How to make more money. (HAWK)
The only way to plug this well is to drill into it below the leak. Drilling relief wells is not going to stop the leak what so ever. If they do plug it, they could loose their lease on it, and they do not want that to happen. Drilling into the leaking casing is no easy task either, and will take a lot of time to accomplish, and that could fail also. BP's decision not to use the recommended amount of centralizers on the casing, which keep it centered in the hole allowing for a good cement job, was to save a lot of money/time. A lot of procedures were bypassed or short changed that lead to this disaster. Their last decision to replace the mud with sea water was also to save time for the incoming production rig. The last cement plug had not been placed at this time, and there was gas/pressure up the casing due to their decision not to use the recommended amount of centralizers which resulted in a bad cement job. The BOP had already been damaged, the cement job was not good, and replacing the mud with sea water allowed the well pressure to blow out.
did you see today's news? seems some sort of underwater robot, knocked the sleeve off the leak, causing interruption of the retrieval...
wondering.. if the same type of device, caused the initial break... and, exactly WHO sent it, and WHY? Watch all the conspiracy theory types run rampant with that!
This under water Robot does not run by it's self. Someone had to be controlling the Robot. Just another of BP's stupid mistakes. When the cap was knocked off of the well, they should have pulled the cap to surface. Then went back insde the well with a string of pipe and ran the pipe to the bottom of this well. Then pumped mud and cement to plug the well off. Just an example, they have 5,000 feet of pipe from water surface to the cap. They should have had some pipe weight setting down on the well cap. Then how could a small Robot knock the cap off? Something smells like a fish about this whole diaster. (HAWK)
The pipe is open, you don't have to drill through it, just run pipe inside it. The casing was already set and cemented in place on bottom. There are ways to drill inside this pipe if need be. If you have pipe from water surface to the cap, then take the cap off and run inside existing pipe. The top of the BOP is 5,000 feet below water surface.
The casing is cemented completely, not just at the bottom. That cement job was bad allowing flow outside the casing. Drill below the bop into the hole above the formation, and cement it.
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i really dont get the above article!
Oh, I do! (just a lost reporter)... the real story is the enviro-wackos, taking over the fourth largest corporation on the planet, the entire oil exploration industry, the entire chemical plant industry... followed by the lumber/paper mill industries, strip mining industry, cap and trade (read:energy rationing)etc.
This is the 'holy grail' for enviromentalists-global authority, and permanent, unlimited funding from fines and litigation, to perpetuate it! Witness the $20B eco-extortion!
THAT's why the weeks of golf games. Enviro wacko pres, has an AGENDA, to let the spill continue, until the holy grail is guaranteed.
(not that the gov't has any idea how to stop it, anyway)!
Fifty years from now, the declassifications will happen. Then, those of us, who are still alive.... can see whether this was an intentional enviro terrorist act- by a greenpeace sub, the navy, CIA, or the like- to bring about the 'holy grail.'
Just think, Bush (it's ALWAYS Bush's fault, right?) will change from enviro-goat, to enviro hero- for allowing the deep water drilling, and ushering in the golden age of environmental extremism!
Obama will collect another Nobel prize, for
protecting the environment! (and doing the same amount he did for the other one-nada!)
Then, his news clips will go a CD (grammy award), a DVD (an oscar), and a military documentary (congressional medal of honor- for 'heroism' in the ''''war'''' to protect the earth)!!!
You are partially right about some of these things, but there is a way to plug this well. I sent in a suggestion on how to plug this well to BP suggestion web site. I recieved a reply stating that they had already thought of the same plan I had sent to them and that this plan was their next step to plug this well off. They do not want to plug this well, it is making them millions of dollars a day from the oil they are recovering. BP claimed they did not know how much oil was flowing from this well, yes they knew. The oil industry has formulas to calculate flow rates. BP knew what the pressure of this well was from the weight of the mud they used to drill into this formation. The weight of the mud is what keeps the well from blowing out while you are drilling. BP knowing the bottom hole pressure with the mud in the hole can calculate flow rates by the size of the pipe and the surface pressure at the BOP. If they wanted this well plugged, it would already be pluggued. BP did not give out any of this information at the Senate hearing in Washington. All BP did was evade answers by saying they were waiting on the full investigation. Two months after the blow out they are still investigating. Investigating what? Answer: How to make more money. (HAWK)
The only way to plug this well is to drill into it below the leak. Drilling relief wells is not going to stop the leak what so ever. If they do plug it, they could loose their lease on it, and they do not want that to happen. Drilling into the leaking casing is no easy task either, and will take a lot of time to accomplish, and that could fail also. BP's decision not to use the recommended amount of centralizers on the casing, which keep it centered in the hole allowing for a good cement job, was to save a lot of money/time. A lot of procedures were bypassed or short changed that lead to this disaster. Their last decision to replace the mud with sea water was also to save time for the incoming production rig. The last cement plug had not been placed at this time, and there was gas/pressure up the casing due to their decision not to use the recommended amount of centralizers which resulted in a bad cement job. The BOP had already been damaged, the cement job was not good, and replacing the mud with sea water allowed the well pressure to blow out.
did you see today's news? seems some sort of underwater robot, knocked the sleeve off the leak, causing interruption of the retrieval...
wondering.. if the same type of device, caused the initial break... and, exactly WHO sent it, and WHY?
Watch all the conspiracy theory types run rampant with that!
This under water Robot does not run by it's self. Someone had to be controlling the Robot. Just another of BP's stupid mistakes. When the cap was knocked off of the well, they should have pulled the cap to surface. Then went back insde the well with a string of pipe and ran the pipe to the bottom of this well. Then pumped mud and cement to plug the well off. Just an example, they have 5,000 feet of pipe from water surface to the cap. They should have had some pipe weight setting down on the well cap. Then how could a small Robot knock the cap off? Something smells like a fish about this whole diaster. (HAWK)
So, how do you suggest they drill through the existing pipe and drill collar that remain in the well below the surface of the ocean floor?
The pipe is open, you don't have to drill through it, just run pipe inside it. The casing was already set and cemented in place on bottom. There are ways to drill inside this pipe if need be. If you have pipe from water surface to the cap, then take the cap off and run inside existing pipe. The top of the BOP is 5,000 feet below water surface.
if, repeat, IF, the 'pipe' (or what's left of it), was the only leak down there (of several dozen, currently)..
next guess?
The casing is cemented completely, not just at the bottom. That cement job was bad allowing flow outside the casing. Drill below the bop into the hole above the formation, and cement it.
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